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Menu Plan March 19-25

Spring is here! Although I was really hoping for at least one good snow this winter I”ve decided to just enjoy the glorious weather we have been given. (I’m still not convinced we won’t have snow on Easter though.) After making dinner tonight (in a house without air conditioning) I think we will be focusing on lots of CrockPot or stove-top meals. 🙂

We were blessed to celebrate a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s. Hope you and your families had a blessed Christmas. We are settling in well to our new home and welcomed our first real snow today! Hooray! I’m sure lots of sledding is in our future this week so we will be keeping the menu fairly simple.

It is hard to believe that there is less than a week left before Christmas. With our big move this month I think it is just now starting to feel like Christmas the past couple of days. Hopefully we will actually be able to put up our Christmas tree tomorrow. We spent a delightful evening yesterday Christmas caroling. The Christmas Spirit is definitely alive in our home despite the lack of decorations. 🙂

Monday:

Breakfast: Leftover French Toast Apple Strata: This is a wonderful dish to make around Christmas. It can be assembled the night before and then put in the oven in the morning. (I often make it when we have house guests.) We may end up making it again on Christmas day. 😉

Lunch: Leftover Chicken and Mushroom Stew over Rice.

Dinner: Leftover Roast-I made this the other day and for some reason it took forever to cook so we ended up making pancakes for dinner. Everyone has those days right?

To Do: Make Homemade Bread-I found all of the parts to my mixer yesterday! Hooray!

As most of you probably already know we have MOVED!!! We are super excited and are loving our new church home. Sorry for the break in blogging (my longest ever). Life was way to crazy during the move to keep it up. We moved last Saturday. Life is still pretty crazy for us but I do see the light at the end of the tunnel. As far as our menu goes it’s been pretty interesting around here. 🙂 I don’t know the last time I have been this creative in our cooking. I’ll start to make something and realize oh wait I haven’t found the potato peeler yet. Anyway here is what our super simple menu has looked like this week:

Monday:

Breakfast: Coco Wheats, Yogurt, Banana

Lunch: Grilled Ham and Cheese, Broccoli Cheese Soup, Carrots

Dinner: Fancy Smancy Dinner out with a bunch of area pastors and their wives. (It was lots of fun.)

To Do: Soak Oats overnight for breakfast

Tuesday:

Breakfast: Soaked Oatmeal, Yogurt.

Lunch: Lunchmeat Sandwiches (These were a real treat for us this week. We usually don’t buy lunchmeat since it is so expensive.)

Dinner: Spaghetti, Side Salads, Rolls.

Wednesday:

Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs, leftover Soaked Oatmeal, tea

Lunch: Lunchmeat Sandwich, Veggie Sticks

Dinner: Chicken Casserole-A super sweet lady in our church sent it over via her hubby. I was so thankful! I had been trying to figure out what in the world I could fix and he showed up with a casserole. It was delicious too!

Except for the warm weather we have been having it feels as though fall is here. There are some fun fall decorations in our home and we are looking forward to picking a pumpkin tomorrow. Everyday it seems that the leaves turn just a little bit more. In the mean time I have been having a great time putting up apples with Elijah. So far we have made applesauce, canned apples, apple butter, pear-applesauce, and apple jelly. We can’t wait to enjoy them this winter. 🙂 This week’s menu will be pretty simple with a few fall favorites thrown in. I’m looking forward to using our oven a little bit more as the weather turns cooler.